Links from 2015 (401 links)

Finally, our analysis might provide a reality check on some of the gigantic brand values now published by leading brand valuation companies as it reveals that often the lion’s share of value lies in customer relationships. Although closely intertwined, brand equity and customer equity are different concepts that need to be measured and reported separately. The real art of brand management will be to integrate the two concepts without being stymied by friction between the camps that typically manage brands and customer relationships. As Peter Drucker said, well before the advent of the information age, the sole purpose of a business is to create a customer. It’s clear that brand building will only go so far.

Via genmon.

PostCSS plugin to rebase url(), inline or copy asset.

gu:who is an audit bot for the membership of your GitHub Organisation. It checks all users in your organisation, and raises a GitHub issue for anyone who doesn't meet the basic security requirements.

tools that make it easier to use postcss plugins with webpack

.@SlackHQ any chance you could stop collapsing `--` to `—`, at least in backticks? Breaks SUIT CSS modifiers: github.com/suitcss/suit/b…

Timer-based screen locker for OS X inspired by Breaktime app (http://breaktimeapp.com/)

The Economist has taken the view that advertising is nice, and we’ll certainly take money where we can get it, but we’re pretty much expecting it to go away.

Via tomtaylor.

A declarative, HTML-based language that makes building web apps fun

Pixel measuring and colour picking.

CSS calc() is possibly the most exciting and useful thing ever (presuming no IE8 support). caniuse.com/#feat=calc

I'm... I'm not helping much am I, Dad? youtube.com/watch?v=yBKcr1…

HMTL archives

Your very own April Zero.

Via tomtaylor.

It's a long article, but the essential point is that insufficient time spent in bright light >10k lux (roughly corresponding to being in shade on a bright day) during early childhood increases the risk of developing myopia.

In Japan, they play Monster Hunter everywhere. You’ll see groups of people in parks and cafes, or on packed commuter trains, handheld consoles clutched in their…

William Gibson and his novel  Neuromancer  burst into the cultural consciousness in 1984. The book was in the first wave of cyberpunk and established ideas of…

Adds OpenType features—ligatures, kerning, and more—to Normalize.css.

Uck, Boostrap. But hmm, component composability